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  • A Psychological Explanation for Why Your Boss is a Moron

    A Psychological Explanation for Why Your Boss is a Moron0

    In 1999 David Dunning, a psychologist at Cornell University, and a graduate student, Justin Kruger, published a paper. Its hypothesis became known as the Dunning-Kruger Effect, and it went something like this (to quote Dunning): “…incompetent people do not recognize—scratch that, cannot recognize—just how incompetent they are.” According to Dunning and Kruger, incompetent people will: 1.Often

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  • A Proposal to Kill Irony

    A Proposal to Kill Irony0

    In the literary world, postmodernism was a movement defined by cynicism, absurdism, satire, and irony. At some point, it stopped being a tool with which to diagnose the culture and became the personality of our culture. It crept into our conversations, our art, our politics, and eventually into the way we talk to those we

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  • A Progressive Explains Why the Left Downplays Family Structure

    A Progressive Explains Why the Left Downplays Family Structure1

    Modern society tends to think that given enough education, job opportunities, and equality advancement a child will be able to lift himself out of poverty and enjoy a successful life as an adult. But as a new study published by the Census Bureau shows, one of the greatest ways to lift children out of poverty

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  • A Prison Mentality Is Killing Our Schools

    A Prison Mentality Is Killing Our Schools0

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  • A Principled Way of Addressing Trans Athletics

    A Principled Way of Addressing Trans Athletics0

    Swimmer Lia Thomas swept her individual races at the recent Ivy League Swimming and Diving Championships, breaking numerous records in the process. Thomas is now headed to the NCAA Championships in mid-March, albeit with much controversy, for Thomas’s recent identification transition from a man to a woman is perceived by many, teammates included, as an

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  • A Primer on Courage

    A Primer on Courage0

    • September 16, 2015

    Courage, also known as “fortitude” or “bravery,” is one of the four cardinal virtues along with prudence, justice, and temperance. Along with temperance, courage helps one to conquer the obstacles to doing the good with prudence and justice. According to Aristotle, one possesses the virtue of courage if he/she “faces and … fears the right things …

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